About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

[Ivan Georgiev]

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:27:58 +0000
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

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> Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:48:47PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote:
> > 
> >> Concerning this, I've "cvsuping" to 6-CURRENT on a dual-core desktop. The 
> >> system is running well, but I'd really like to move up to 7. Can it be done 
> >> through cvsup from 6.2-STABLE to 7-CURRENT or is it "wiser" to install from 
> >> scratch? any upgrade gotchas/procedure ?
> > 
> > It _can_ be done. (I've done it).
> > 
> > First, make a list of all your ports (portmaster -L works fine for
> > that). Then csup to RELENG_7. Then follow the instructions from
> > /usr/src/Makefile (the bit about 'upgrade their source'). I've outlined
> > the process below, with my own additions marked with lowercase letters
> > 
> > 
> >  a.  Make backups
> >  b.  Read /usr/src/UPDATING
> >  1.  `cd /usr/src'       (or to the directory containing your source tree).
> >  2.  `make buildworld'
> >  3.  `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE'     (default is GENERIC).
> >  4.  `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE'   (default is GENERIC).
> >       [steps 3. & 4. can be combined by using the "kernel" target]
> >  5.  `reboot'        (in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt).
> >  6.  `mergemaster -p'
> >  7.  `make installworld'
> >  8.  `make delete-old'
> >  9.  `mergemaster'
> > 10.  `reboot'
> >  c. `pkg_delete -a' (delete all your ports)
> > 11.  `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore)
> >  d.  Reinstall all root and leaf ports. Dependencies will then be
> >      installed automatically.
> 
> I went through this process myself in pretty much the order you
> describe.  Due to bitter experience, I'd say that reinstalling
> all ports should be done before 'make delete-old-libs' -- by
> killing all the old 6.x shlibs you make it hard to run most
> software previously installed under 6.x including such things as
> 'portupgrade'...
> 
> You don't need to delete all the ports in one go and then reinstall
> them in another: running 'portupgrade -fa' will do the job.  That can
> take several days to complete if you've got a machine with OpenOffice,
> Firefox, Thunderbird, Java, KDE, Gnome, X Windows etc. installed.   If
> you're careful you can still keep various services running during that
> time, restarting them one by one as the various applications get
> upgraded.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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You could have avoided the missing libs problem by 
installing the misc/compat6x port. Its purpose is to 
provide legacy 6.X libraries for apps to use.

Regards:
Ivan